Fable 5 hits 16.1% automation on freelance jobs in the Remote Labor Index, up from 2.5% eight months ago

Fable 5 在 RLI 基准中达成 16.1% 自动化率，较八个月前提升六倍

The Remote Labor Index tests AI agents on 240 real freelance projects worth $144,000. Fable 5 reached a 16.1% automation rate, nearly double Opus 4.8's 8.3% and well ahead of GPT-5.5's 6.3%. Eight months ago the top score was 2.5%. 22 of Fable 5's projects couldn't be evaluated due to US government access restrictions; even in the worst case its rate would be 14.6%. The study also found AI judges overrate performance badly—GPT-5.5's score was inflated nearly 3x because the AI judge couldn't open professional software to inspect actual deliverables. No model's output passed as finished professional work, but the automation rate has more than quadrupled in under a year.

Why it matters: RLI is one of the few benchmarks using real paid freelance projects; Fable 5 hitting 16.1% — nearly double the runner-up — with a 6x improvement in 8 months is solid. Held below the top band because Fable isn't a tier-1 lab and the post doesn't disclose model size or cost, so ...